You could say that the cracked back of my HTC U11 is completely my fault and I will agree that I share some blame in it. If I had kept in it a case all the time or if I would have been a bit more careful, the phone would have never chipped in the first place.
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The overall verdict is a positive one, but that wouldn't account for everything the scratch, burn and bend tests encompass.
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At least one techie Weibo account has dropped a fairly in-depth specifications list of what we should expect from the Galaxy S8 that should be coming relatively soon.By the way, it’s just a screenshot of a two-column list that looks formatted perhaps for a blog. Even KJuma, a well-known entity around these social parts, is asking a couple of other techie Weibo members if they think the list is a bluff — though she hasn’t gotten an answer back. You’re free to believe or ...
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While it’s recently had to face unusual criticism for Gorilla Glass 5’s apparent scratch vulnerability on the otherwise tough as nails Samsung Galaxy Note 7, Corning remains the clear leader of the cover glass industry it single-handedly established almost a decade ago.But keeping more than 4.5 billion devices ...
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The company behind what’s supposedly the most shatter-proof glass for smartphones in the market is addressing concerns made on a JerryRigEverything YouTube video.In the video, the display glass gets scratched with an assortment of picks, the hardness of each relating to a step on the Mohs hardness scale. In this case, the Note 7 appeared to show signs of scratching at around a ...
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Corning pretty much has the smartphone glass market cornered. It’s on 4.5 billion or 73 percent of devices and it’s looking for more with the release of Gorilla Glass 5.The fourth version came out a couple of years ago, so what could’ve improved since then? Oh, just a difference of about 27 inches. Drop takes have improved by 60 percent, up to 1.6 meters — high enough for most selfie-takers with their outstretched arms and, sometimes, some clumsy knuckles.After tweaks and triumphs, the ...
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